Quotes About Satire

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

I've seen Jordanian television lead its newscast with three identical, consecutive scenes, all on the same royal couch. It's hilarious, and most Western reporters cackle sarcastically when they first see it. I certainly did.

I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.

As you know now, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party, but they'll probably go with a different body.

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.

Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.

I have to say, after hanging out with Republicans for four days, I want to take a look at my own birth certificate. I don't think I was born in this country.

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

We can write idiots quite well.

The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.